The annual festival will welcome a remarkable line up of authors, critics and thinkers to what is probably the most stunning setting of any literary event in the world: the glorious grounds of Althorp House in Northamptonshire.

Between 15 and 17 of June, an array of talks, readings and debates will take place, led by figures as wide-ranging as Capital author John Lanchester, Radio 2’s Jeremy Vine and David Hockney biographer Christopher Simon Sykes.